Paris — French police removed around 500 migrants, mostly Afghans but some Africans, from a makeshift tent encampment in central Paris at dawn Monday. In the operation near Canal Saint Martin, buses transported the migrants to lodgings around the Paris region where they can pursue asylum requests. Some of the migrants were hopeful the move will help them get certainty about their future. “All people in here don’t know other languages – French, English – they don’t know what to do,” he said. Paris police have already cleared out some 28,000 migrants from Paris camps in the past three years, but the arrivals haven’t slowed.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 04, 2018 08:26 UTC